Welcome to the background screening portion of YFUSA's Coaching Certification Program.

YFUSA has partnered with MyBackgroundCheck.com to provide you with a way to certify your criminal background check according to YFUSA standards. This quick and easy process will search your background for criminal history and present you with a certification card to verify your status to the officials and administrators of your league. YFUSA Coach Background Check Certification

What does the background check include?

The YFUSA approved background check consists of 3 parts:

1. A social security number trace to verify the coach's identity and develop a name and address history.

2. A county criminal records check. This will include felonies and misdemeanor convictions in the coach's current county of residence for at least the last 7 years. It may also include relevant arrest records that have not yet gone to trial.

3. A national criminal / sex offender database search. This search includes criminal records from all 50 states, drawing from sex offender registries, correctional departments, county court records, and international watch lists such as the FBI Most Wanted, Interpol Most Wanted, restricted foreign nationals, and more.

How is the YFUSA screening program better than a basic background check?

Most youth sports related background checks require only a sex offender registry search, and/or a national criminal database search for each coach. While these resources are often fast and inexpensive, they alone do not offer a due diligent background check. The quality of national database information varies from state to state, so it is important to accompany this search with a local criminal background check, such as a county criminal search, to ensure the same standard for each subject. Local criminal searches provide the most accurate and up to date criminal information of any search method available.

Also, database and sex offender searches are often based only on a subject's name. If a subject had criminal records associated with a name he or she did not disclose, they would go undetected in this type of search. By performing a social security number trace we detect these aliases.

The YFUSA screening program also prevents false identification of criminal records. Unlike a name-match only search, criminal records must also match a person's social security number and/or date of birth to be reported in a YFUSA approved background check. Furthermore, the YFUSA program offers the ability to verify all national database hits at the local level, ensuring full FCRA compliance.

The cost of the YFUSA Certification package is $30.00 per coach. This option includes the YFUSA Certification Exam and a background check.

CLICK HERE to begin the background check process.

BACKGROUND CHECK REFERENCE READING

CLICK HERE to read article by John M. Sadler, JD, CIC, on the types of background checks.

CLICK HERE to read "Background Checks in Youth Sports: GUIDELINES FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

CLICK HERE to read a story about a league struggling with background checks

CLICK HERE to read a story about a New Jersey league and background checks

CLICK HERE to read a store from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette about youth groups requiring backgrounc checks